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Australia has focused firmly on financial regulation and increasing growth for the G20 summit in Brisbane that opens on Saturday.

Following the sale of its ailing Eckerd drugstore chain to The Jean Coutu Group and CVS for $4.5 billion in 2004, the retailer has focused firmly on fashion.

Cindy Sherman, photographer extraordinaire, has always had her incisive gaze focused firmly on herself, yet it has been the self of a thousand faces.

Some critics of the bill, who lobbied the governor to veto it, said they were surprised he had turned his attention to abortion when he had, of late, focused firmly on matters of the state's finances and education, including vouchers for private or parochial school tuition.

Instead, all their conversation was focused firmly on the future, and the reception India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, had just received on his trip to America.

Instead he focused firmly on love and sex.

Its operations are truly global and management is focused firmly on delivering profitable growth.

In Soweto, though, interest will focus firmly on how he referees.

Bathed in sunshine, the Japanese fans flocking to Suzuka have their focus firmly on the track.

Since Thursday night, when the traffic stopped and the blowtorching began, the attention of many in the Bay Area has been firmly focused on a huge construction project under way on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, which connects the two cities via this tiny, picturesque dollop of an island.

Fashion isn't always as attuned to the weather as the British public but – appropriately, given the current conditions – the autumn/winter shows at London Fashion Week have been firmly focused on coats – and no one does luxurious, practical outerwear better than the British label Burberry Prorsum.